Convolutional Neural Networks

Project: Write an Algorithm for a Dog Identification App


In this notebook, some template code has already been provided for you, and you will need to implement additional functionality to successfully complete this project. You will not need to modify the included code beyond what is requested. Sections that begin with '(IMPLEMENTATION)' in the header indicate that the following block of code will require additional functionality which you must provide. Instructions will be provided for each section, and the specifics of the implementation are marked in the code block with a 'TODO' statement. Please be sure to read the instructions carefully!

Note: Once you have completed all of the code implementations, you need to finalize your work by exporting the Jupyter Notebook as an HTML document. Before exporting the notebook to html, all of the code cells need to have been run so that reviewers can see the final implementation and output. You can then export the notebook by using the menu above and navigating to File -> Download as -> HTML (.html). Include the finished document along with this notebook as your submission.

In addition to implementing code, there will be questions that you must answer which relate to the project and your implementation. Each section where you will answer a question is preceded by a 'Question X' header. Carefully read each question and provide thorough answers in the following text boxes that begin with 'Answer:'. Your project submission will be evaluated based on your answers to each of the questions and the implementation you provide.

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The rubric contains optional "Stand Out Suggestions" for enhancing the project beyond the minimum requirements. If you decide to pursue the "Stand Out Suggestions", you should include the code in this Jupyter notebook.


Why We're Here

In this notebook, you will make the first steps towards developing an algorithm that could be used as part of a mobile or web app. At the end of this project, your code will accept any user-supplied image as input. If a dog is detected in the image, it will provide an estimate of the dog's breed. If a human is detected, it will provide an estimate of the dog breed that is most resembling. The image below displays potential sample output of your finished project (... but we expect that each student's algorithm will behave differently!).

Sample Dog Output

In this real-world setting, you will need to piece together a series of models to perform different tasks; for instance, the algorithm that detects humans in an image will be different from the CNN that infers dog breed. There are many points of possible failure, and no perfect algorithm exists. Your imperfect solution will nonetheless create a fun user experience!

The Road Ahead

We break the notebook into separate steps. Feel free to use the links below to navigate the notebook.

  • Step 0: Import Datasets
  • Step 1: Detect Humans
  • Step 2: Detect Dogs
  • Step 3: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (from Scratch)
  • Step 4: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (using Transfer Learning)
  • Step 5: Write your Algorithm
  • Step 6: Test Your Algorithm

Step 0: Import Datasets

Make sure that you've downloaded the required human and dog datasets:

  • Download the dog dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in this project's home directory, at the location /dog_images.

  • Download the human dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in the home directory, at location /lfw.

Note: If you are using a Windows machine, you are encouraged to use 7zip to extract the folder.

In the code cell below, we save the file paths for both the human (LFW) dataset and dog dataset in the numpy arrays human_files and dog_files.

In [1]:
import numpy as np
from glob import glob

# load filenames for human and dog images
human_files = np.array(glob("/data/lfw/*/*"))
dog_files = np.array(glob("/data/dog_images/*/*/*"))

# print number of images in each dataset
print(f"There are {len(human_files)} total human images.")
print(f"There are {len(dog_files)} total dog images.")
There are 13233 total human images.
There are 8351 total dog images.

Step 1: Detect Humans

In this section, we use OpenCV's implementation of Haar feature-based cascade classifiers to detect human faces in images.

OpenCV provides many pre-trained face detectors, stored as XML files on github. We have downloaded one of these detectors and stored it in the haarcascades directory. In the next code cell, we demonstrate how to use this detector to find human faces in a sample image.

In [4]:
import cv2                
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt                        
%matplotlib inline                               

# extract pre-trained face detector
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')

# load color (BGR) image
img = cv2.imread(human_files[0])
# convert BGR image to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

# find faces in image
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)

# print number of faces detected in the image
print('Number of faces detected:', len(faces))

# get bounding box for each detected face
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
    # add bounding box to color image
    cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
    
# convert BGR image to RGB for plotting
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)

# display the image, along with bounding box
plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
plt.show()
Number of faces detected: 1

Before using any of the face detectors, it is standard procedure to convert the images to grayscale. The detectMultiScale function executes the classifier stored in face_cascade and takes the grayscale image as a parameter.

In the above code, faces is a numpy array of detected faces, where each row corresponds to a detected face. Each detected face is a 1D array with four entries that specifies the bounding box of the detected face. The first two entries in the array (extracted in the above code as x and y) specify the horizontal and vertical positions of the top left corner of the bounding box. The last two entries in the array (extracted here as w and h) specify the width and height of the box.

Write a Human Face Detector

We can use this procedure to write a function that returns True if a human face is detected in an image and False otherwise. This function, aptly named face_detector, takes a string-valued file path to an image as input and appears in the code block below.

In [5]:
# returns "True" if face is detected in image stored at img_path
def face_detector(img_path):
    img = cv2.imread(img_path)
    gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
    return len(faces) > 0

(IMPLEMENTATION) Assess the Human Face Detector

Question 1: Use the code cell below to test the performance of the face_detector function.

  • What percentage of the first 100 images in human_files have a detected human face?
  • What percentage of the first 100 images in dog_files have a detected human face?

Ideally, we would like 100% of human images with a detected face and 0% of dog images with a detected face. You will see that our algorithm falls short of this goal, but still gives acceptable performance. We extract the file paths for the first 100 images from each of the datasets and store them in the numpy arrays human_files_short and dog_files_short.

Answer: (You can print out your results and/or write your percentages in this cell)

In [6]:
human_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = dog_files[:100]

#-#-# Do NOT modify the code above this line. #-#-#

## TODO: Test the performance of the face_detector algorithm 
## on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
humanfaceFound = 0
for file in human_files_short:
    if face_detector(file):
        humanfaceFound+=1

print('Test Accuracy for humans: %2d%% (%2d/%2d)' % (
            100 * humanfaceFound / len(human_files_short),
            humanfaceFound, len(human_files_short)))

humanfaceFound = 0
for file in dog_files_short:
    if face_detector(file):
        humanfaceFound+=1

print('Test Accuracy for dogs: %2d%% (%2d/%2d)' % (
            100 - 100 * humanfaceFound / len(human_files_short),
            len(human_files_short) - humanfaceFound, len(human_files_short)))
Test Accuracy for humans: 98% (98/100)
Test Accuracy for dogs: 83% (83/100)

We suggest the face detector from OpenCV as a potential way to detect human images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other approaches, especially approaches that make use of deep learning :). Please use the code cell below to design and test your own face detection algorithm. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on human_files_short and dog_files_short.

In [16]:
### (Optional) 
### TODO: Test performance of anotherface detection algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
In [17]:
import torch
from torchvision import datasets, transforms, models
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True


# check if CUDA is available
train_on_gpu = torch.cuda.is_available()

if not train_on_gpu:
    print('CUDA is not available.  Training on CPU ...')
else:
    print('CUDA is available!  Training on GPU ...')
CUDA is not available.  Training on CPU ...
In [7]:
# from helper.py
def imshow(image, ax=None, title=None, normalize=True):
    """Imshow for Tensor."""
    if ax is None:
        fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    image = image.numpy().transpose((1, 2, 0))
    
    if (title):
        ax.set_title(title)
    
    if normalize:
        mean = np.array([0.485, 0.456, 0.406])
        std = np.array([0.229, 0.224, 0.225])
        image = std * image + mean
        image = np.clip(image, 0, 1)

    ax.imshow(image)
    ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['bottom'].set_visible(False)
    ax.tick_params(axis='both', length=0)
    ax.set_xticklabels('')
    ax.set_yticklabels('')

    return ax
In [19]:
# create custom dataset
from torch.utils.data.dataset import Dataset
from torchvision import transforms

class DogsAndHumansDataset(Dataset):
    def __init__(self, dog_files, human_files, transforms=None):
        self.dog_files = dog_files
        self.num_dog_files = len(dog_files)
        self.human_files = human_files
        self.num_human_files = len(human_files)
        self.transform = transform
        
    def __getitem__(self, index):
        files = self.dog_files
        label = 0
        if index >= self.num_dog_files:
            files = self.human_files
            label = 1
            index -= self.num_dog_files
            
        img = Image.open(files[index])
        img_as_tensor = self.transform(img)
        return (img_as_tensor, label)

    def __len__(self):
        return self.num_dog_files + self.num_human_files
In [30]:
import torch
from torch.utils.data.sampler import SubsetRandomSampler


transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(224),
                                transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                                transforms.ToTensor(),
                                transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                                     [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])])

# create dataset without short test files
dataset = DogsAndHumansDataset(dog_files[100:], human_files[100:], transform)

batch_size = 20
num_workers = 0
validation_split = .2
shuffle_dataset = True
random_seed = 42

# Creating data indices for training and validation splits:
dataset_size = len(dataset)
indices = list(range(dataset_size))
split = int(np.floor(validation_split * dataset_size))
if shuffle_dataset :
    np.random.seed(random_seed)
    np.random.shuffle(indices)
train_indices, val_indices = indices[split:], indices[:split]

# Creating PT data samplers and loaders:
train_sampler = SubsetRandomSampler(train_indices)
valid_sampler = SubsetRandomSampler(val_indices)

train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers, 
                                           sampler=train_sampler)
validation_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers,
                                                sampler=valid_sampler)
test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(DogsAndHumansDataset(dog_files_short, human_files_short, transform), 
                                          batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers, shuffle=True)

classes = ['dog', 'human']

print('Training images:', len(train_sampler.indices))
print('Validation images:', len(valid_sampler.indices))
print('Test images:', len(test_loader.dataset))
Training images: 17108
Validation images: 4276
Test images: 200
In [35]:
dataiter = iter(train_loader)
images, labels = dataiter.next()
# images = images.numpy() # convert images to numpy for display

# plot the images in the batch, along with the corresponding labels
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(25, 4))
for idx in np.arange(20):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(2, 20/2, idx+1, xticks=[], yticks=[])
    imshow(images[idx], title=classes[labels[idx]], ax=ax)
In [21]:
import torch.nn as nn

vgg16 = models.vgg16(pretrained=True)
for param in vgg16.features.parameters():
    param.requires_grad = False

vgg16.classifier[6] = torch.nn.Linear(4096, 2)

# if GPU is available, move the model to GPU
if train_on_gpu:
    vgg16.cuda()

# check to see that your last layer produces the expected number of outputs
print(vgg16.classifier[6])
Linear(in_features=4096, out_features=2, bias=True)
In [22]:
import torch.optim as optim

# specify loss function (categorical cross-entropy)
criterion = torch.nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

# specify optimizer (stochastic gradient descent) and learning rate = 0.001
optimizer = optim.SGD(vgg16.classifier.parameters(), lr=0.001)
In [19]:
n_epochs = 4

valid_loss_min = np.Inf

for epoch in range(1, n_epochs):
    train_loss = 0.0
    valid_loss = 0.0
    
    vgg16.train()
    for batch, (data, target) in enumerate(train_loader):
        if train_on_gpu:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        
        output = vgg16(data)
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        
        train_loss += ((1 / (batch + 1)) * (loss.data - train_loss))
        print('training batch {}, loss {:.6f}'.format(batch, train_loss), end='\r')
            
        
    vgg16.eval()
    for batch, (data, target) in enumerate(validation_loader):
        if train_on_gpu:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()

        output = vgg16(data)
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        valid_loss += ((1 / (batch + 1)) * (loss.data - valid_loss))
        print('validation batch {}, loss {:.6f}'.format(batch, valid_loss), end='\r')
        
        
    # print training/validation statistics 
    print('Epoch: {} \tTraining Loss: {:.6f} \tValidation Loss: {:.6f}'.format(
        epoch, train_loss, valid_loss))
    
    # save model if validation loss has decreased
    if valid_loss <= valid_loss_min:
        print('Validation loss decreased ({:.6f} --> {:.6f}).  Saving model ...'.format(
        valid_loss_min,
        valid_loss))
        torch.save(vgg16.state_dict(), 'model_dogs_and_humans.pt')
        valid_loss_min = valid_loss
Epoch: 1 	Training Loss: 0.001600 	Validation Loss: 0.001877
Validation loss decreased (inf --> 0.001877).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 2 	Training Loss: 0.001321 	Validation Loss: 0.001761
Validation loss decreased (0.001877 --> 0.001761).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 3 	Training Loss: 0.001192 	Validation Loss: 0.001626
Validation loss decreased (0.001761 --> 0.001626).  Saving model ...
In [23]:
vgg16.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_dogs_and_humans.pt', map_location=lambda storage, loc: storage))
In [21]:
# track test loss
test_loss = 0.0
class_correct = list(0. for i in range(2))
class_total = list(0. for i in range(2))

vgg16.eval()
# iterate over test data
for batch, (data, target) in enumerate(test_loader):
    # move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
    if train_on_gpu:
        data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
    # forward pass: compute predicted outputs by passing inputs to the model
    output = vgg16(data)
    # calculate the batch loss
    loss = criterion(output, target)
    # update test loss 
#     test_loss += loss.item()*data.size(0)
    test_loss += ((1 / (batch + 1)) * (loss.data - test_loss))
    # convert output probabilities to predicted class
    _, pred = torch.max(output, 1)    
    # compare predictions to true label
    correct_tensor = pred.eq(target.data.view_as(pred))
    correct = np.squeeze(correct_tensor.numpy()) if not train_on_gpu else np.squeeze(correct_tensor.cpu().numpy())
    # calculate test accuracy for each object class
    for i in range(batch_size):
        label = target.data[i]
        class_correct[label] += correct[i].item()
        class_total[label] += 1
    
    print('test batch {}, loss {:.6f}'.format(batch, train_loss), end='\r')

# average test loss
# test_loss = test_loss/len(test_loader.dataset)
print('=======================================')
print('Test Loss: {:.6f}\n'.format(test_loss))

for i in range(2):
    if class_total[i] > 0:
        print('Test Accuracy of %5s: %2d%% (%2d/%2d)' % (
            classes[i], 100 * class_correct[i] / class_total[i],
            np.sum(class_correct[i]), np.sum(class_total[i])))
    else:
        print('Test Accuracy of %5s: N/A (no training examples)' % (classes[i]))

print('\nTest Accuracy (Overall): %2d%% (%2d/%2d)' % (
    100. * np.sum(class_correct) / np.sum(class_total),
    np.sum(class_correct), np.sum(class_total)))
=======================================
Test Loss: 0.000295

Test Accuracy of   dog: 100% (100/100)
Test Accuracy of human: 100% (100/100)

Test Accuracy (Overall): 100% (200/200)
In [36]:
# obtain one batch of test images
dataiter = iter(test_loader)
images, labels = dataiter.next()
images.numpy()

plt.rcParams.update({'figure.max_open_warning': 0})
plt.clf()

# move model inputs to cuda, if GPU available
if train_on_gpu:
    images = images.cuda()

# get sample outputs
output = vgg16(images)
# convert output probabilities to predicted class
_, preds_tensor = torch.max(output, 1)
preds = np.squeeze(preds_tensor.numpy()) if not train_on_gpu else np.squeeze(preds_tensor.cpu().numpy())

# plot the images in the batch, along with predicted and true labels
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(20, 20))
for idx in np.arange(20):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(5, 20/5, idx+1, xticks=[], yticks=[])
    title = "pred: {} \ntruth: {}".format(classes[preds[idx]], classes[labels[idx]])
    imshow(images[idx].cpu(), title=title, ax=ax)
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Step 2: Detect Dogs

In this section, we use a pre-trained model to detect dogs in images.

Obtain Pre-trained VGG-16 Model

The code cell below downloads the VGG-16 model, along with weights that have been trained on ImageNet, a very large, very popular dataset used for image classification and other vision tasks. ImageNet contains over 10 million URLs, each linking to an image containing an object from one of 1000 categories.

In [29]:
import torch
import torchvision.models as models

# define VGG16 model
VGG16 = models.vgg16(pretrained=True)

# check if CUDA is available
use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()

# move model to GPU if CUDA is available
if use_cuda:
    VGG16 = VGG16.cuda()
Downloading: "https://download.pytorch.org/models/vgg16-397923af.pth" to /root/.torch/models/vgg16-397923af.pth
100%|██████████| 553433881/553433881 [00:05<00:00, 98236674.39it/s] 

Given an image, this pre-trained VGG-16 model returns a prediction (derived from the 1000 possible categories in ImageNet) for the object that is contained in the image.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Making Predictions with a Pre-trained Model

In the next code cell, you will write a function that accepts a path to an image (such as 'dogImages/train/001.Affenpinscher/Affenpinscher_00001.jpg') as input and returns the index corresponding to the ImageNet class that is predicted by the pre-trained VGG-16 model. The output should always be an integer between 0 and 999, inclusive.

Before writing the function, make sure that you take the time to learn how to appropriately pre-process tensors for pre-trained models in the PyTorch documentation.

In [30]:
from PIL import Image
import torchvision.transforms as transforms

def VGG16_predict(img_path):
    ## TODO: Complete the function.
    ## Load and pre-process an image from the given img_path
    ## Return the *index* of the predicted class for that image
    img_pil = Image.open(img_path)

    data_transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(255),
                                      transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                                      transforms.ToTensor(),
                                      transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                                           [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])])
#     Image.Image.show(img_pil)
    img_tensor = data_transform(img_pil)
    img_tensor.unsqueeze_(0)
    
    if use_cuda:
        img_tensor = img_tensor.cuda()
    
    output = VGG16(img_tensor)
    _, preds_tensor = torch.max(output, 1)
    preds = np.squeeze(preds_tensor.numpy()) if not use_cuda else np.squeeze(preds_tensor.cpu().numpy())

    
    return preds.item() # predicted class index

# VGG16_predict('data/dogs/train/001.Affenpinscher/Affenpinscher_00001.jpg')

(IMPLEMENTATION) Write a Dog Detector

While looking at the dictionary, you will notice that the categories corresponding to dogs appear in an uninterrupted sequence and correspond to dictionary keys 151-268, inclusive, to include all categories from 'Chihuahua' to 'Mexican hairless'. Thus, in order to check to see if an image is predicted to contain a dog by the pre-trained VGG-16 model, we need only check if the pre-trained model predicts an index between 151 and 268 (inclusive).

Use these ideas to complete the dog_detector function below, which returns True if a dog is detected in an image (and False if not).

In [31]:
### returns "True" if a dog is detected in the image stored at img_path
def dog_detector(img_path):
    ## TODO: Complete the function.
    category = VGG16_predict(img_path)
    
    return 151 <= category <= 268 # true/false

# dog_detector('data/dogs/train/001.Affenpinscher/Affenpinscher_00001.jpg')

(IMPLEMENTATION) Assess the Dog Detector

Question 2: Use the code cell below to test the performance of your dog_detector function.

  • What percentage of the images in human_files_short have a detected dog?
  • What percentage of the images in dog_files_short have a detected dog?

Answer:

In [26]:
### TODO: Test the performance of the dog_detector function
### on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
found = 0
for file in human_files_short:
    if (dog_detector(file)):
        found += 1

print(found, 'dogs of 0 found in human_files_short')

found = 0
for file in dog_files_short:
    if (dog_detector(file)):
        found += 1

print(found, 'dogs of',len(dog_files_short),'found in dog_files_short')
0 dogs of 0 found in human_files_short
100 dogs of 100 found in dog_files_short

We suggest VGG-16 as a potential network to detect dog images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other pre-trained networks (such as Inception-v3, ResNet-50, etc). Please use the code cell below to test other pre-trained PyTorch models. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on human_files_short and dog_files_short.

In [27]:
### (Optional) 
### TODO: Report the performance of another pre-trained network.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
import torch
import torchvision.models as models

# define VGG16 model
ResNet = models.resnet50(pretrained=True)

# check if CUDA is available
use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()

# move model to GPU if CUDA is available
if use_cuda:
    ResNet = ResNet.cuda()
Downloading: "https://download.pytorch.org/models/resnet50-19c8e357.pth" to /root/.torch/models/resnet50-19c8e357.pth
100%|██████████| 102502400/102502400 [00:01<00:00, 92417622.71it/s]
In [28]:
from PIL import Image
import torchvision.transforms as transforms

def ResNet_predict(img_path):
    img_pil = Image.open(img_path)
    data_transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(255),
                                      transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                                      transforms.ToTensor(),
                                      transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                                           [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])])

    img_tensor = data_transform(img_pil)
    img_tensor.unsqueeze_(0)
    
    if use_cuda:
        img_tensor = img_tensor.cuda()
    
    output = ResNet(img_tensor)
    _, preds_tensor = torch.max(output, 1)
    preds = np.squeeze(preds_tensor.numpy()) if not use_cuda else np.squeeze(preds_tensor.cpu().numpy())

    
    return preds.item() # predicted class index

Affenpinscher_prediction = ResNet_predict('/data/dog_images/train/001.Affenpinscher/Affenpinscher_00001.jpg')
print('Affenpinscher prediction', Affenpinscher_prediction)
# 852 = A tennisball! Not sure what happened here... :(
Abba_Eban_prediction = ResNet_predict('/data/lfw/Abba_Eban/Abba_Eban_0001.jpg')
print('Abba_Eban prediction', Abba_Eban_prediction)
# 463 = Bucket!?
# Not sure what to make of these results. Luckily this is an optional exercise :)
Affenpinscher prediction 852
Abba_Eban prediction 463

Step 3: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (from Scratch)

Now that we have functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, we need a way to predict breed from images. In this step, you will create a CNN that classifies dog breeds. You must create your CNN from scratch (so, you can't use transfer learning yet!), and you must attain a test accuracy of at least 10%. In Step 4 of this notebook, you will have the opportunity to use transfer learning to create a CNN that attains greatly improved accuracy.

We mention that the task of assigning breed to dogs from images is considered exceptionally challenging. To see why, consider that even a human would have trouble distinguishing between a Brittany and a Welsh Springer Spaniel.

Brittany Welsh Springer Spaniel

It is not difficult to find other dog breed pairs with minimal inter-class variation (for instance, Curly-Coated Retrievers and American Water Spaniels).

Curly-Coated Retriever American Water Spaniel

Likewise, recall that labradors come in yellow, chocolate, and black. Your vision-based algorithm will have to conquer this high intra-class variation to determine how to classify all of these different shades as the same breed.

Yellow Labrador Chocolate Labrador Black Labrador

We also mention that random chance presents an exceptionally low bar: setting aside the fact that the classes are slightly imabalanced, a random guess will provide a correct answer roughly 1 in 133 times, which corresponds to an accuracy of less than 1%.

Remember that the practice is far ahead of the theory in deep learning. Experiment with many different architectures, and trust your intuition. And, of course, have fun!

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Data Loaders for the Dog Dataset

Use the code cell below to write three separate data loaders for the training, validation, and test datasets of dog images (located at dog_images/train, dog_images/valid, and dog_images/test, respectively). You may find this documentation on custom datasets to be a useful resource. If you are interested in augmenting your training and/or validation data, check out the wide variety of transforms!

In [17]:
import os
import re
import torch
import numpy as np
from glob import glob
from torchvision import datasets
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
# seems to be needed against "OSError: image file is truncated (150 bytes not processed)"
from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True

### TODO: Write data loaders for training, validation, and test sets
## Specify appropriate transforms, and batch_sizes

# check if CUDA is available
use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()

num_workers = 0
batch_size = 20


normalize = transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                 [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])

train_transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.RandomResizedCrop(224, scale=(0.8,1)),
                                      transforms.RandomRotation(10),
                                      transforms.ToTensor(),
                                     normalize])

test_transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(224),
                                  transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                                  transforms.ToTensor(),
                                  normalize])

training_data = datasets.ImageFolder('/data/dog_images/train/', train_transform)
valid_data = datasets.ImageFolder('/data/dog_images/valid/', test_transform)
test_data = datasets.ImageFolder('/data/dog_images/test/', test_transform)
classes = training_data.classes

print(f"training data size: {len(training_data)}")
print(f"validation data size: {len(valid_data)}")
print(f"test data size: {len(test_data)}")
print(f"classes: {len(classes)}")

train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(training_data, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers, shuffle=True)
valid_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(valid_data, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers)
test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(test_data, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers, shuffle=True)

loaders_scratch = {'train': train_loader, 'valid': valid_loader, 'test': test_loader}
training data size: 6680
validation data size: 835
test data size: 836
classes: 133
In [18]:
# from helper.py
def imshow(image, ax=None, title=None, normalize=True):
    """Imshow for Tensor."""
    if ax is None:
        fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    image = image.numpy().transpose((1, 2, 0))
    
    if (title):
        ax.set_title(title)
    
    if normalize:
        mean = np.array([0.485, 0.456, 0.406])
        std = np.array([0.229, 0.224, 0.225])
        image = std * image + mean
        image = np.clip(image, 0, 1)

    ax.imshow(image)
    ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['bottom'].set_visible(False)
    ax.tick_params(axis='both', length=0)
    ax.set_xticklabels('')
    ax.set_yticklabels('')

    return ax
In [31]:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

dataiter = iter(train_loader)
images, labels = dataiter.next()

# plot the images in the batch, along with the corresponding labels
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(25, 4))
for idx in np.arange(20):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(5, 20/5, idx+1, xticks=[], yticks=[])
    imshow(images[idx], ax=ax, title=classes[labels[idx]], normalize=True)

Question 3: Describe your chosen procedure for preprocessing the data.

  • How does your code resize the images (by cropping, stretching, etc)? What size did you pick for the input tensor, and why?
  • Did you decide to augment the dataset? If so, how (through translations, flips, rotations, etc)? If not, why not?

Answer:

I have attempted to use a larger image size to maintain more detail, and thereby provide the cnn more to distinguish breeds by. After a sevaral attempts and too much time, I ended up using 224x224 images as the larger images ran into memory issues with the model. I augmented the images with random resizes, cropping and rotation for the training data set, and center cropping for validation and test. I didn't feel more augmentation was neccessary as the photos were quite varied.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Model Architecture

Create a CNN to classify dog breed. Use the template in the code cell below.

In [19]:
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

# define the CNN architecture
class Net(nn.Module):
    ### TODO: choose an architecture, and complete the class
    def __init__(self):
        super(Net, self).__init__()
        ## Define layers of a CNN
        
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(3, 32, 3)
        self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(32, 64, 3)
        self.conv3 = nn.Conv2d(64, 128, 3)
        self.conv4 = nn.Conv2d(128, 256, 3)
        self.conv5 = nn.Conv2d(256, 512, 3)

        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(512 * 6 * 6, 1024)
        self.fc2 = nn.Linear(1024, 133)
        
        self.max_pool = nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2,ceil_mode=True)
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.25)
    
    def forward(self, x):
        x = F.relu(self.conv1(x))
        x = self.max_pool(x)
        
        x = F.relu(self.conv2(x))
        x = self.max_pool(x)
        
        x = F.relu(self.conv3(x))
        x = self.max_pool(x)
        
        x = F.relu(self.conv4(x))
        x = self.max_pool(x)
        
        x = F.relu(self.conv5(x))
        x = self.max_pool(x)
        
        x = x.view(-1, 512 * 6 * 6)
        
        x = self.dropout(x)
        x = self.fc1(x)
        
        return x

    
#-#-# You so NOT have to modify the code below this line. #-#-#

# instantiate the CNN
model_scratch = Net()

# move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
if use_cuda:
    model_scratch.cuda()
    
print(model_scratch)
Net(
  (conv1): Conv2d(3, 32, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1))
  (conv2): Conv2d(32, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1))
  (conv3): Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1))
  (conv4): Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1))
  (conv5): Conv2d(256, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1))
  (fc1): Linear(in_features=18432, out_features=1024, bias=True)
  (fc2): Linear(in_features=1024, out_features=133, bias=True)
  (max_pool): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=True)
  (dropout): Dropout(p=0.25)
)

Question 4: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step.

Answer: As the introduction hinted at the difficulty of predicting dog breeds, I started off with a rather complex cnn with multiple convolutional layers between pooling layers, but as training was slow and losses remained high, I started to trim layers. As the input 224x224x3 and the output of 1x133 were a given, I attempted to half the resolution until reaching a relatively small, but much deeper 6x6x512 to convert pixels into features.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Loss Function and Optimizer

Use the next code cell to specify a loss function and optimizer. Save the chosen loss function as criterion_scratch, and the optimizer as optimizer_scratch below.

In [20]:
import torch.optim as optim

### TODO: select loss function
criterion_scratch = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

### TODO: select optimizer
optimizer_scratch = optim.Adam(model_scratch.parameters(), lr=0.001)

(IMPLEMENTATION) Train and Validate the Model

Train and validate your model in the code cell below. Save the final model parameters at filepath 'model_scratch.pt'.

In [21]:
def train(n_epochs, loaders, model, optimizer, criterion, use_cuda, save_path):
    """returns trained model"""
    # initialize tracker for minimum validation loss
    valid_loss_min = np.Inf 
    
    for epoch in range(1, n_epochs+1):
        # initialize variables to monitor training and validation loss
        train_loss = 0.0
        valid_loss = 0.0
        
        ###################
        # train the model #
        ###################
        model.train()
        for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['train']):
            # move to GPU
            if use_cuda:
                data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
                
            optimizer.zero_grad()
            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            loss.backward()
            optimizer.step()
            train_loss += ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - train_loss))
            print('training batch {}, loss {:.6f}'.format(batch_idx, train_loss), end='\r')
            
        ######################    
        # validate the model #
        ######################
        model.eval()
        for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['valid']):
            # move to GPU
            if use_cuda:
                data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            valid_loss += ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - valid_loss))
            print('validation batch {}, loss {:.6f}'.format(batch_idx, valid_loss), end='\r')
        
        # print training/validation statistics 
        print('Epoch: {} \tTraining Loss: {:.6f} \tValidation Loss: {:.6f}'.format(
            epoch, 
            train_loss,
            valid_loss
            ))
        
        ## TODO: save the model if validation loss has decreased
        if valid_loss <= valid_loss_min:
            print('Validation loss decreased ({:.6f} --> {:.6f}).  Saving model ...'.format(
            valid_loss_min,
            valid_loss))
            torch.save(model.state_dict(), save_path)
            valid_loss_min = valid_loss
            
    # return trained model
    return model
In [22]:
# train the model
model_scratch = train(10, loaders_scratch, model_scratch, optimizer_scratch, 
                      criterion_scratch, use_cuda, 'model_scratch.pt')

# load the model that got the best validation accuracy
model_scratch.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_scratch.pt'))
Epoch: 1 	Training Loss: 4.933518 	Validation Loss: 4.570625
Validation loss decreased (inf --> 4.570625).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 2 	Training Loss: 4.328069 	Validation Loss: 4.288503
Validation loss decreased (4.570625 --> 4.288503).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 3 	Training Loss: 3.945757 	Validation Loss: 4.236248
Validation loss decreased (4.288503 --> 4.236248).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 4 	Training Loss: 3.514916 	Validation Loss: 4.005775
Validation loss decreased (4.236248 --> 4.005775).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 5 	Training Loss: 3.010220 	Validation Loss: 3.989846
Validation loss decreased (4.005775 --> 3.989846).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 6 	Training Loss: 2.414023 	Validation Loss: 4.163628
Epoch: 7 	Training Loss: 1.818100 	Validation Loss: 4.646385
Epoch: 8 	Training Loss: 1.373208 	Validation Loss: 4.972946
Epoch: 9 	Training Loss: 1.076592 	Validation Loss: 5.436125
Epoch: 10 	Training Loss: 0.848793 	Validation Loss: 5.639618
In [23]:
# load the model that got the best validation accuracy
model_scratch.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_scratch.pt'))

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test the Model

Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Use the code cell below to calculate and print the test loss and accuracy. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 10%.

In [13]:
def test(loaders, model, criterion, use_cuda):

    # monitor test loss and accuracy
    test_loss = 0.
    correct = 0.
    total = 0.

    model.eval()
    for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(loaders['test']):
        # move to GPU
        if use_cuda:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
        # forward pass: compute predicted outputs by passing inputs to the model
        output = model(data)
        # calculate the loss
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        # update average test loss 
        test_loss = test_loss + ((1 / (batch_idx + 1)) * (loss.data - test_loss))
        # convert output probabilities to predicted class
        pred = output.data.max(1, keepdim=True)[1]
        # compare predictions to true label
        correct += np.sum(np.squeeze(pred.eq(target.data.view_as(pred))).cpu().numpy())
        total += data.size(0)
        
        print('test batch {}, loss {:.6f}'.format(batch_idx, test_loss), end='\r')
            
    print('Test Loss: {:.6f}\n'.format(test_loss))

    print('\nTest Accuracy: %2d%% (%2d/%2d)' % (
        100. * correct / total, correct, total))
In [25]:
# call test function    
test(loaders_scratch, model_scratch, criterion_scratch, use_cuda)
Test Loss: 3.926456 3.926456


Test Accuracy: 14% (118/836)
In [73]:
# obtain one batch of test images
dataiter = iter(loaders_scratch['test'])
images, labels = dataiter.next()
images.numpy()

# plt.rcParams.update({'figure.max_open_warning': 0})
plt.clf()


# move model inputs to cuda, if GPU available
if use_cuda:
    images = images.cuda()

# get sample outputs
output = model_scratch(images)
# convert output probabilities to predicted class
_, preds_tensor = torch.max(output, 1)
preds = np.squeeze(preds_tensor.numpy()) if not use_cuda else np.squeeze(preds_tensor.cpu().numpy())

# plot the images in the batch, along with predicted and true labels
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(20, 20))
for idx in np.arange(20):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(5, 20/5, idx+1, xticks=[], yticks=[])
    title = "pred: {} \ntruth: {}".format(classes[preds[idx]], classes[labels[idx]])
    imshow(images[idx].cpu(), title=title, ax=ax)
<matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x7f7d28470e10>

Step 4: Create a CNN to Classify Dog Breeds (using Transfer Learning)

You will now use transfer learning to create a CNN that can identify dog breed from images. Your CNN must attain at least 60% accuracy on the test set.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Data Loaders for the Dog Dataset

Use the code cell below to write three separate data loaders for the training, validation, and test datasets of dog images (located at dogImages/train, dogImages/valid, and dogImages/test, respectively).

If you like, you are welcome to use the same data loaders from the previous step, when you created a CNN from scratch.

In [8]:
import os
import re
import torch
import numpy as np
from glob import glob
from torchvision import datasets
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
# seems to be needed against "OSError: image file is truncated (150 bytes not processed)"
from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True

# check if CUDA is available
use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()

num_workers = 0
batch_size = 20


normalize = transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                 [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])

train_transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.RandomResizedCrop(224, scale=(0.8,1)),
                                      transforms.RandomRotation(10),
                                      transforms.ToTensor(),
                                     normalize])

test_transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(224),
                                  transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                                  transforms.ToTensor(),
                                  normalize])

training_data = datasets.ImageFolder('/data/dog_images/train/', train_transform)
valid_data = datasets.ImageFolder('/data/dog_images/valid/', test_transform)
test_data = datasets.ImageFolder('/data/dog_images/test/', test_transform)
classes = training_data.classes

print(f"training data size: {len(training_data)}")
print(f"validation data size: {len(valid_data)}")
print(f"test data size: {len(test_data)}")
print(f"classes: {len(classes)}")

train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(training_data, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers, shuffle=True)
valid_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(valid_data, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers)
test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(test_data, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers, shuffle=True)

loaders_transfer = {'train': train_loader, 'valid': valid_loader, 'test': test_loader}
training data size: 6680
validation data size: 835
test data size: 836
classes: 133

(IMPLEMENTATION) Model Architecture

Use transfer learning to create a CNN to classify dog breed. Use the code cell below, and save your initialized model as the variable model_transfer.

In [9]:
import torchvision.models as models
import torch.optim as optim
import torch.nn as nn

## TODO: Specify model architecture 
model_transfer = models.resnet50(pretrained=True)

for param in model_transfer.parameters():
    param.requires_grad = False
    
model_transfer.fc = nn.Linear(2048, len(classes))

if use_cuda:
    model_transfer = model_transfer.cuda()
    
# print(model_transfer)
Downloading: "https://download.pytorch.org/models/resnet50-19c8e357.pth" to /root/.torch/models/resnet50-19c8e357.pth
100%|██████████| 102502400/102502400 [00:02<00:00, 44991966.65it/s]

Question 5: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. Describe why you think the architecture is suitable for the current problem.

Answer: For this CNN I picked ResNet50 for it good performance vs error on ImageNet classification. As that set already contains dog breeds, it seemed to be the ideal network for my hardware and accuracy requirements.

(IMPLEMENTATION) Specify Loss Function and Optimizer

Use the next code cell to specify a loss function and optimizer. Save the chosen loss function as criterion_transfer, and the optimizer as optimizer_transfer below.

In [10]:
criterion_transfer = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
optimizer_transfer = optim.SGD(model_transfer.fc.parameters(), lr=0.001)

(IMPLEMENTATION) Train and Validate the Model

Train and validate your model in the code cell below. Save the final model parameters at filepath 'model_transfer.pt'.

In [10]:
# train the model
n_epochs = 25
model_transfer = train(n_epochs, loaders_transfer, model_transfer, optimizer_transfer, criterion_transfer, use_cuda, 'model_transfer.pt')
Epoch: 1 	Training Loss: 3.356426 	Validation Loss: 3.105585
Validation loss decreased (inf --> 3.105585).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 2 	Training Loss: 3.185310 	Validation Loss: 2.950541
Validation loss decreased (3.105585 --> 2.950541).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 3 	Training Loss: 3.018908 	Validation Loss: 2.792302
Validation loss decreased (2.950541 --> 2.792302).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 4 	Training Loss: 2.867627 	Validation Loss: 2.623461
Validation loss decreased (2.792302 --> 2.623461).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 5 	Training Loss: 2.730323 	Validation Loss: 2.465911
Validation loss decreased (2.623461 --> 2.465911).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 6 	Training Loss: 2.600104 	Validation Loss: 2.330245
Validation loss decreased (2.465911 --> 2.330245).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 7 	Training Loss: 2.479261 	Validation Loss: 2.223443
Validation loss decreased (2.330245 --> 2.223443).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 8 	Training Loss: 2.368160 	Validation Loss: 2.125970
Validation loss decreased (2.223443 --> 2.125970).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 9 	Training Loss: 2.266108 	Validation Loss: 2.032155
Validation loss decreased (2.125970 --> 2.032155).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 10 	Training Loss: 2.170652 	Validation Loss: 1.910694
Validation loss decreased (2.032155 --> 1.910694).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 11 	Training Loss: 2.082336 	Validation Loss: 1.845918
Validation loss decreased (1.910694 --> 1.845918).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 12 	Training Loss: 2.011660 	Validation Loss: 1.776301
Validation loss decreased (1.845918 --> 1.776301).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 13 	Training Loss: 1.931744 	Validation Loss: 1.708129
Validation loss decreased (1.776301 --> 1.708129).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 14 	Training Loss: 1.851160 	Validation Loss: 1.637758
Validation loss decreased (1.708129 --> 1.637758).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 15 	Training Loss: 1.792301 	Validation Loss: 1.563789
Validation loss decreased (1.637758 --> 1.563789).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 16 	Training Loss: 1.737957 	Validation Loss: 1.530089
Validation loss decreased (1.563789 --> 1.530089).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 17 	Training Loss: 1.687866 	Validation Loss: 1.469543
Validation loss decreased (1.530089 --> 1.469543).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 18 	Training Loss: 1.629374 	Validation Loss: 1.414740
Validation loss decreased (1.469543 --> 1.414740).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 19 	Training Loss: 1.588777 	Validation Loss: 1.394925
Validation loss decreased (1.414740 --> 1.394925).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 20 	Training Loss: 1.529902 	Validation Loss: 1.332939
Validation loss decreased (1.394925 --> 1.332939).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 21 	Training Loss: 1.501246 	Validation Loss: 1.284420
Validation loss decreased (1.332939 --> 1.284420).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 22 	Training Loss: 1.458547 	Validation Loss: 1.262585
Validation loss decreased (1.284420 --> 1.262585).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 23 	Training Loss: 1.422452 	Validation Loss: 1.231687
Validation loss decreased (1.262585 --> 1.231687).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 24 	Training Loss: 1.386829 	Validation Loss: 1.199064
Validation loss decreased (1.231687 --> 1.199064).  Saving model ...
Epoch: 25 	Training Loss: 1.351187 	Validation Loss: 1.181327
Validation loss decreased (1.199064 --> 1.181327).  Saving model ...
In [11]:
# load the model that got the best validation accuracy (uncomment the line below)
model_transfer.load_state_dict(torch.load('model_transfer.pt', map_location=lambda storage, loc: storage))

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test the Model

Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Use the code cell below to calculate and print the test loss and accuracy. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 60%.

In [14]:
test(loaders_transfer, model_transfer, criterion_transfer, use_cuda)
Test Loss: 1.165854 1.165854


Test Accuracy: 81% (680/836)
In [18]:
# display a batch of test images
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

dataiter = iter(loaders_transfer['test'])
images, labels = dataiter.next()
images.numpy()

# plt.rcParams.update({'figure.max_open_warning': 0})
plt.clf()


# move model inputs to cuda, if GPU available
if use_cuda:
    images = images.cuda()

# get sample outputs
output = model_transfer(images)
# convert output probabilities to predicted class
_, preds_tensor = torch.max(output, 1)
preds = np.squeeze(preds_tensor.numpy()) if not use_cuda else np.squeeze(preds_tensor.cpu().numpy())

# plot the images in the batch, along with predicted and true labels
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(20, 20))
for idx in np.arange(20):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(5, 20/5, idx+1, xticks=[], yticks=[])
    title = "pred: {} \ntruth: {}".format(classes[preds[idx]], classes[labels[idx]])
    imshow(images[idx].cpu(), title=title, ax=ax)
<matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x7fb4f9009eb8>

(IMPLEMENTATION) Predict Dog Breed with the Model

Write a function that takes an image path as input and returns the dog breed (Affenpinscher, Afghan hound, etc) that is predicted by your model.

In [25]:
### TODO: Write a function that takes a path to an image as input
### and returns the dog breed that is predicted by the model.
from torchvision import transforms
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True

# list of class names by index, i.e. a name can be accessed like class_names[0]
class_names = [item[4:].replace("_", " ") for item in classes]

def predict_breed_transfer(img_path):
    # load the image and return the predicted breed
    img = Image.open(img_path)
    transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.Resize(224),
                                transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                                transforms.ToTensor(),
                                transforms.Normalize([0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
                                                     [0.229, 0.224, 0.225])])
    img_as_tensor = transform(img)
    img_as_tensor = img_as_tensor.unsqueeze_(0)
    
    if use_cuda:
        img_as_tensor = img_as_tensor.cuda()
    output = model_transfer(img_as_tensor)
    _, preds_tensor = torch.max(output, 1)
    preds = np.squeeze(preds_tensor.numpy()) if not use_cuda else np.squeeze(preds_tensor.cpu().numpy())
    return class_names[preds]
In [26]:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# quick test on humans
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(20, 20))
for idx in np.arange(8):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(5, 20/5, idx+1, xticks=[], yticks=[])
    plt.imshow(Image.open(human_files[idx]))
    ax.set_title(f"probably a(n) {predict_breed_transfer(human_files[idx])}")
In [27]:
# quick test on dogs
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(20, 20))
for idx in np.arange(8):
    ax = fig.add_subplot(5, 20/5, idx+1, xticks=[], yticks=[])
    plt.imshow(Image.open(dog_files[idx*50]))
    ax.set_title(f"Probably a(n) {predict_breed_transfer(dog_files[idx*50])}")

Step 5: Write your Algorithm

Write an algorithm that accepts a file path to an image and first determines whether the image contains a human, dog, or neither. Then,

  • if a dog is detected in the image, return the predicted breed.
  • if a human is detected in the image, return the resembling dog breed.
  • if neither is detected in the image, provide output that indicates an error.

You are welcome to write your own functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, but feel free to use the face_detector and human_detector functions developed above. You are required to use your CNN from Step 4 to predict dog breed.

Some sample output for our algorithm is provided below, but feel free to design your own user experience!

Sample Human Output

(IMPLEMENTATION) Write your Algorithm

In [33]:
### TODO: Write your algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def run_app(img_path):
    ## handle cases for a human face, dog, and neither
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    title = ''
    if dog_detector(img_path):
        title = f"Well, if it isn't a beautiful\n{predict_breed_transfer(img_path)}!"
    elif face_detector(img_path):
        title = f"You may be a human,\nbut you look like \na {predict_breed_transfer(img_path)} to me! :)"
    else:
        title = 'I have no idea what I\'m looking at!'
    
    ax.set_title(title)
    ax.imshow(plt.imread(img_path))
    ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['bottom'].set_visible(False)
    ax.tick_params(axis='both', length=0)
    ax.set_xticklabels('')
    ax.set_yticklabels('')

Step 6: Test Your Algorithm

In this section, you will take your new algorithm for a spin! What kind of dog does the algorithm think that you look like? If you have a dog, does it predict your dog's breed accurately? If you have a cat, does it mistakenly think that your cat is a dog?

(IMPLEMENTATION) Test Your Algorithm on Sample Images!

Test your algorithm at least six images on your computer. Feel free to use any images you like. Use at least two human and two dog images.

Question 6: Is the output better than you expected :) ? Or worse :( ? Provide at least three possible points of improvement for your algorithm.

Answer: (Three possible points for improvement)

  • Considering the time constraints of the course, I am very satisfied with the 81% accuracy of the ResNet50 trained on 133 dog breeds.
  • Could probably spend some more time fine tuning the learning rate
  • Could also look through the photos, as I've noticed some dogs are accompanied by people, to create a cleaner dataset
  • Could increase the number of epochs in connection to tuning the learning rate to further improvement the algorithm
In [34]:
## TODO: Execute your algorithm from Step 6 on
## at least 6 images on your computer.
## Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.

## suggested code, below
for file in np.hstack((human_files[:3], dog_files[:3])):
    run_app(file)
In [36]:
my_files = np.array(glob("my_photos/*"))
for file in my_files:
    run_app(file)